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An Iowa man, Jordan Dee Andrew Webb, 31, and Christian missionary has been sentenced to spend more than two decades in prison for sexually abusing a child under the age of 12 who contracted gonorrhea from the abuse.
An ensuing investigation resulted in a search warrant being executed at an address on 225th Street in Webster County. That address, the Messenger reports, is owned by Harvest Baptist Church and used for its Harvest Baptist Bible College. Webb worked as a missionary – sent by Harvest Baptist – to St. Lucia as part of a “Christ in the Caribbean” project from 2019 through early 2022, according to the Messenger.
During trial, evidence was presented that Webb was diagnosed with gonorrhea just days before the child was also diagnosed with gonorrhea. The prosecution’s case was aided, in substantial part, by the testimony of an expert in child abuse pediatrics. Taylor, the lead prosecutor in the case, successfully pushed back against the defense’s claims that the child could have contracted gonorrhea in a non-sexual manner.
Marvin Smith IV is the current pastor at Harvest Baptist Church in Fort Dodge.
He vouched for Webb in a letter to the court last year, calling him a “great citizen,” and a “great man in the community,” saying he didn’t think Webb was a danger to the community or a flight risk.
Court records show Webb was looking up how to get a second passport just a few weeks before Smith sent that letter.
From 2019 to February 2022, Webb served as a missionary in the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia. According to a now-deleted Facebook page and website for Webb’s “Christ in the Caribbean”missionary work in St. Lucia, Harvest Baptist Church in Fort Dodge was the “sending church” for his mission work.
District Court Judge Christopher Polking sentenced 31-year-old Jordan Webb, of Fort Dodge, to 25 years for the sex abuse charge, five years for the incest charge and two years for the child endangerment charge. Polking cited the charges stemming from the same offense as part of the reason for ordering the sentences to be served concurrently, or all at the same time.
The sex abuse charge does carry a mandatory minimum of 70 percent of the sentence, or 17.5 years, to be served in prison before Webb can be deemed eligible for parole. He must also successfully complete a sex offender treatment program before he can become eligible for release.
